Pentagon: Too much sympathy for the victims

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002341.html

We heard this on CNN (on satellite radio) last night while we were driving home and almost ran off the road. It was an exchange between anchor Aaron Brown and Jamie McIntyre, CNN's senior Pentagon correspondent, about the military seeking to explain it's slow response to Katrina:

MCINTYRE: And as to your question about political, I talked to a lot of people at the Pentagon today who were very frustrated about the fact that the perception was being created that the military didn't move fast enough. And they did it somewhat as political. They thought that part of the motivation was the critics of the administration to make the president look bad.

And they seemed to question the motives of some of our reporters who were out there and hearing these stories from the victims about why they had so much sympathy for the victims, and not as much sympathy for the challenges that the government met in meeting this challenge.

Peace.

Sympathy. Well, duh.

It might have something to do with the fact that people are dying. No one is helping them. WE actually WANT to help them. And we see our government apparently unconcerned with the situation until the public firestorm makes them realize not responding will reduce their power.

The Pentagon can kiss my *ss. Geez, Louise - they need to get a clue.

If anyone is playing politics, it's them. It's cover the President even when he's a sociopath content with murdering Americans.

Why doesn't the PENTAGON sympathize with the victims - that's the real question!

The poor government! They had to leave their dry houses and come to work on a disaster. They were so busy they had to order take-out and had to get water out of the office water cooler. Waaaah!! :cry:

.. without food or water, instead of staring admiringly at W's heroic minions. How, how could I have been so thoughtless? Oh, this is a stinging rebuke, which wounds me to the heart!

"And they seemed to question the motives of some of our reporters who were out there and hearing these stories from the victims about why they had so much sympathy for the victims, and not as much sympathy for the challenges that the government met in meeting this challenge."

This is insane. That is infuriating! How about because these Americans who were ignored and abandoned by the Federal Government for entirely too long are victims of this natural disaster and victims again thanks to the colossal failure of Bush and this administration to take care of its people. In America we don't have "sympathy" for the government, or its agencies...that's absurd! In America we expect the government to do its job, its duty by the American people. Oh, oh yeah, but these "Republicans" (ie Bush and his people) aren't into government though are they! Not as much as they are into profits, corruption and greed.

thanks for finding the transcript. Tried to tell this to a friend and it sounded to odd he seemed not to believe me.

This needs to be spread around so people finally understand how sick these people really are.

on so many levels. all that matters is that * looks good !!!!

it is just sick, sick, sick !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the religious right to blather on and on about how they are so victimized. Some sort of victim complex.

That is how they hide. I noticed they stopped whining immediately.

Looked ridiculous.

Get real. The poor were lined up by the thousands, including the infirmed who had no way out. God, when will you relieve us of Bush?

And puke making. :puke:

who were the victims of improper pre-emptive action, horribly insuficcient disaster response, and ongoing inept and even downright negligent rescue efforts? Why have any sympathy for the jagoffs who sat idly by and let it all happen, continued to sit on their asses for several days before doing anything, and are still making half-assed efforts?

coming up next week. That should make them all feel better.

Uh, yeah, right. Now I've heard everything. :eyes:

Until four days later.

The navy offered to start ships movements BEFORE the hurricane hit. The WHITE HOUSE did not give that permission until days after it hit.

must be smeared and destroyed immediately.

It is as simple a formula as ever exists in Totalitarian, Third-World Nations like Imperial Amerika.

it takes a bit of time to get their shit together..................................BUTTTTTTTTTTTT FIVE DAYS????

Nah, I don't feel sorry for the Pentagon, the Prez, the HOMELAND, fema or any other bureaucrats.

Ya know, I've always thought that the Pentagon building would make a nice mall or nifty housing for low income families. All it houses now is a bunch of snakes. :grr:

They are above reproach and beneath contempt.

How dare we actually hold them account for doing their jobs, and how dare we feel pain for people who die or are homeless.

guard turn his time on cnn into a recruiting pitch.saying"You too can help people in need if you join the national guard".I thought that was ballsy.He failed to mention you'd be doing it in Iraq.

Then we paid tens of billions to rebuild it. It didn't get rebuilt. Now we pay tens of billions to squat on a ruined land.

For this we needed to cut 71 million from corps of engineer funds in Louisiana. That's about the cost of one advanced fighter aircraft. The defense budget is now in the trillions while ruling elites and their corporate fiefdoms have shifted virtually their entire tax burden to the middle class and future generations.

People don't understand the budget process. The federal budget under the criminal bush administration and corporate owned Congress take from the general welfare and subsidize defense contractors and corporate favorites with huge handouts. Remember the first actions after 911? The airline industry facing bankruptcy before 911 got a $20 billion dollar handout. Corporate giants like IBM and Exxon got checks for hundreds of millions. The defense and security sector got $80 billion in handouts. The federal budget today allocates national priorities away from the needs of peaceful civilian pursuits, commerce, and infrastructure to buy weapons systems and nuclear warheads.

With the complaints about the totally failed response in New Orleans, DOD partisans and crisis profiteer shareholders (also referred to as the "base" and the "have mores") see their government goose laying golden eggs threatened.